Robyn Longhurst

Robyn Longhurst is a New Zealand human geography academician, and as of 2006 is a full professor at the University of Waikato.

Academic career
After a 1996 PhD titled  'Geographies that matter: Pregnant bodies in public places'  at the University of Waikato, Longhurst joined the staff, rising to full professor. Notable students include Lynda Johnston and Angeline Greensill.

In 2018 Longhurst was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Selected works

 * Longhurst, Robyn. "Semi-structured interviews and focus groups." Key methods in geography 3 (2003): 143–156.
 * Longhurst, Robyn. Bodies: Exploring fluid boundaries. Routledge, 2004.
 * Johnston, Lynda, and Robyn Longhurst. Space, place, and sex: Geographies of sexualities. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.
 * Longhurst, Robyn, Elsie Ho, and Lynda Johnston. "Using 'the body’as an 'instrument of research': kimch’i and pavlova." Area 40, no. 2 (2008): 208–217.
 * Longhurst, Robyn. "VIEWPOINT The body and geography." Gender, Place & Culture 2, no. 1 (1995): 97–106.